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Passport to Shame

Passport to Shame (also known as Room 43 and Room Forty Three), is a 1958 British drama film directed by Alvin Rakoff and starring Diana Dors and Herbert Lom. It was written by Patrick Alexander.

Plot

Nick Biaggi runs a finance company that provides unsecured loans to naïve young women – a facade for manipulating them into prostitution. He recruits many of these women from abroad and to get them passports arranges "husbands" for them in marriages of convenience. His newest recruit is Marie Louise "Malou" Beaucaire and her sham husband will be Johnny McVey, a Canadian cab driver who owes money to Nick.

    More details

    author
    contentLocation London
    director Alvin Rakoff
    editor Lee Doig
    events prostitution
    genre drama
    keywords cab driver engage held captive sex work upper class young women
    musicBy Ken Jones
    producer John Clein
    productionCompany United Co Productions
    publisher British Lion Films